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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100226090937.7fbcd421@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1002251933s6a250b99v607c97e09f41d4fe@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:33:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

> So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and
> played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night
> due to some sort of corruption on the /var partition. e2fsck
> complained about 3 or 4 files and then repaired the partition. The
> machine booted cleanly as far as I can tell.
> 
> So, something went bad and I managed to sneak around it for a while
> and now I'm sort of living with the machine wondering what to do.

Check the disk with smartmontools.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

All mail what i send is thoughly proof-red, definately!

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-26  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26  3:33 [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption? Mark Knecht
2010-02-26  9:09 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-02-26  9:46 ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-26 15:17   ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-26 16:01     ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-26 16:53       ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-26 17:27         ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-26 17:51           ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-26 17:59             ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-26 18:19               ` Paul Hartman
2010-02-26 18:26               ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-26 18:37                 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-26 18:48                 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-26 11:47 ` daid kahl
2010-02-26 17:38 ` daid kahl
2010-02-26 18:57   ` Mark Knecht

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